The Church of the Epiphany will celebrate homecoming and the start of Sunday School with Sneaker Sunday on Thursday, September 11 following the 10:30a.m. Holy Eucharist.   The celebration will include a barbecue after the service with games for children.  Everyone is encouraged to wear sneakers.  Children can compete for the Scruffiest Sneaker Award by wearing their worst sneakers. This event is...

 

More than 50 seniors took advantage of a special opportunity to register for the Golden Passport EASY Card on August 6 at Town Hall in Miami Lakes. The EASY Card allows senior citizens, 65 years and over, to ride free on county buses, Metrorail and Metromover. Representatives from Commissioner Esteban Bovo Jr.’s office and Miami Dade Transit assisted seniors with their applications.

  The non-profit TREEmendous Miami was honored in early August by the Miami City Commission for planting more than 25,000 trees by volunteers during 16 years. The group works to restore and increase the tree canopy in Miami-Dade County by planting and maintaining trees at schools, in parks, in blighted areas, along main thoroughfares and numerous neighborhood streets along with the restoration of the historic Miami City Cemetery. The...

  Seventy-two young musicians had a “blast” for 20 days at the 17th annual Summer Music Academy hosted by the South Florida Youth Symphony at Miami Lakes Congregational Church. Students studied orchestral strings, classical guitar, all winds and percussion instruments, steel pan, piano, and choir, as well as music theory, composition, music history, recorders, and even a double reed making class. The camp was sponsored in...

  Miami-Dade Police Major Gene Dieppa, commander of the Miami Lakes Police Department, is the guest speaker for the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce’s monthly membership luncheon on Wednesday, September 3, at Shula’s Hotel on Main Street. A resident of Miami Lakes, Dieppa is charged with directing daily law enforcement activities accomplishing the town’s priorities, managing the delivery for police services, and...